Unit GENERAL AND APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY
- Course
- Chemistry and technology of drugs
- Study-unit Code
- 65903909
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Tommaso Beccari
- Teachers
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- Tommaso Beccari
- Carmela Conte
- Hours
- 72 ore - Tommaso Beccari
- 6 ore - Carmela Conte
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline biologiche e farmacologiche
- Academic discipline
- BIO/10
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- knowledge of the main macromolecules of the cell- Structure and function.
Methods in biochemistry - Reference texts
- I principi d biochimica di Lehninger, DL Nelson - MM Cox Zanichelli editore
- Educational objectives
- Understanding the biochemistry of the life and knowledge of the applied biochemistry
- Prerequisites
- Inorganic and organic chemistry
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons
- Other information
- None
- Learning verification modality
- The exam consists of an oral test.
Oral test consists on an interview of about 40.minutes long aiming to ascertain the knowledge level and the understanding capability acquired by the student on theoretical and methodological contents as indicated on the program.
The oral exam will also test the student expression skills. - Extended program
- Water and biological buffers - amino acids, peptides and proteins - tridimensinal strucure of proteins- protein functions - enzyme and enzyme catalysis - carbohydrates and glycobiology - monosaccharides- disaccharides and polysaccharides - nucleic acid - lipids- storage lipis - structural lipids- biological membranes - membrane transport - biosignaling - bioenergetics and metabolism- glycolisis and gluconeogensis - Krebs cycle - catabolism of fatty acids - aminoacids oxidation and urea cycle - oxidative phosphorilation - biosynthesis of carbohydrates - biosynthesis of aminoacids - hormonal regulation - protein metabolism -